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  | | Die Once--Die Twice by Gil Brewer, David Rachels Paperback, 204 Pages, Published 2020 by Stark House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-944520-88-5, ISBN: 1-944520-88-0 "DIE ONCE—DIE TWICEThe opening sentence of “I Had Sex with a Martian” warns its readers, “If you are at all shocked by startling unconventionality and descriptions of male sexual members, do not read my story.”Here are 24 previously unpublished stories from the noir master, Gil Brewer. Beyond the fact that Brewer wrote outstanding short stories, an important reason to read his shorter works is artistic freedom. Brewer’s obsessive theme w ..." |
 | | Redheads Die Quickly and Stories Expanded Edition by Gil Brewer, David Rachels Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2019 by Stark House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-944520-76-2, ISBN: 1-944520-76-7 "REDHEADS DIE QUICKLY Gil Brewer, the frantic master of compulsive noir fiction—the man of whom author/editor Ed Gorman once said, “at his best, he hooked you in the first paragraph and never let you go.” According to Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, “Brewer marinated crime and lust together in the humid Florida heat to produce stories of sexual hunger, obsession, and pr ..." |
 | | Death is a Private Eye by Gil Brewer, David Rachels Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2019 by Stark House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-944520-77-9, ISBN: 1-944520-77-5 "DEATH IS A PRIVATE EYE“The reason these stories are being published only now, rather than 40 or more years ago when they were first written, is that Gil Brewer’s markets have come back to him. Brewer published his first great noir story in 1955, and he kept writing great noir stories for more than 20 years, long after there were magazines eager to buy them. . . . Now, in 2019, with Brewer’s reputation as an important figure in 20th-cent ..." |
 | | Mystery Weekly Magazine May 2019 (Mystery Weekly Magazine Issues) by Rob Nisbet, Paul D. Marks, Jeffery Scott Sims, Dennis Palumbo, David Rachels, Thomas Millstead, Eric Cline Paperback, 81 Pages, Published 2019 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-09-634302-8, ISBN: 1-09-634302-9 "At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Weekly Magazine presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers. The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty.Get ready to be surprised, challenged, ..." |
 | | Switchblade(1st Edition) by Court Merrigan, Danny Sophabmisay, Lisa Douglass, David Rachels, Timothy Friend, Chris Mcginley, Tom Andes, Robb T. White, Alec Cizak, Scotch Rutherford, Preston Lang, Rob Pierce, Jack Bates, Tony Genova, E. F. Sweetman, Rick Risemberg, Tom Barlow Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2018 by Caledonia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9987650-5-1, ISBN: 0-9987650-5-8 "A tsunami-sized crime wave of hardboiled noir from some of the most enduring names in crime fiction, outside of the New York Five. This is the biggest, most robust issue of Switchblade yet. An all-star lineup, brimming with hard luck tales from some of the best outlaw fiction storytellers in print. Court Merrigan and Rob Pierce are in this issue. Indianapolis crime writer, and managing editor of Pulp Modern, Alec Cizak, has a story in t ..." |
 | | Switchblade(1st Edition) by Stephen D. Rogers, Nick Kolakowski, Mark Slade, C. W. Blackwell, Jack Bates, J. L. Boekestein, Bryce Wilson, Jon Zelazny, David Rachels, R. Daniel Lester, Arthur Evans, Mathew X. Gomez, William R. Soldan, Scott Hallam, Michael R. Colangelo, Bill Davidson, Scotch Rutherford Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2018 by Caledonia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9987650-7-5, ISBN: 0-9987650-7-4 "Switchblade is going south—way down south, like a thong bikini in the Daytona Beach heat, where there’s no escaping the humidity. Half of these fifteen tales of vice and suspense take place in the sunshine state, the other half are the same potency of beloved filthy noir, from someplace else. Cult leaders, serial killers, private eyes, rock stars, cigarette boats, bare knuckle fighters, alligators, fugitives, strip clubs, mobsters, and ..." |
 | | Verse Noir(2nd Edition) Expanded Edition by David Rachels Paperback, 162 Pages, Published 2017 by Automat.Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9993209-0-7, ISBN: 0-9993209-0-4 "If a mutant offspring of Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith had written fortune cookies, the result would be Verse Noir. The original edition, published in 2010, was a minimalist masterpiece. Its 77 brief poems—the shortest was only three words long—delivered concentrated doses of sex, violence, and existential angst. This expanded edition doubles the size of the original collection, adding 76 new poems to the mix. If you are a fan ..." |
 | | What the Shadow Told Me by Kurtis Davidson, David Rachels, Kurt Jose Ayau Paperback, 301 Pages, Published 2005 by Eastern Washington University ISBN-13: 978-1-59766-002-0, ISBN: 1-59766-002-7 "What happens when America's greatest author dies before delivering the long-awaited sequel to the greatest novel of the 20th century? His young editor is left racing to find the missing manuscript before a rogue's gallery of opportunists can exploit it for their own devious purposes. That's the premise of Kurtis Davidson's hilarious new novel, What the Shadow Told Me. This engaging look into the world of publishing and literature is int ..." |
 | | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes Completed(Illustrated) A Scholarly Text by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, David Rachels Hardcover, 351 Pages, Published 1998 by Univ Of Georgia Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1978-0, ISBN: 0-8203-1978-3 "Book by Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, Rachels, David" |
 | | Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's "Georgia Scenes" Completed A Scholarly Text by David Rachels Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-5211-4, ISBN: 0-8203-5211-X "Augustus Baldwin Longstreet's Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, Etc. in the First Half Century of the Republic has long been considered the first important work of "Old Southwestern" humor and more lately has been recognized as a seminal example of literary realism. Despite its popularity and significance, Georgia Scenes has been flawed from the outset. Longstreet did not proofread the first edition, which introduced literally hund ..." |
 | | Redheads Die Quickly and Other Stories by Gil Brewer, David Rachels Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2012 by University Press Of Florida ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-4406-4, ISBN: 0-8130-4406-5 "Gil Brewer (1922–1983), a second-generation noir writer, followed in the footsteps of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and James M. Cain. He spent most of his life in the Tampa Bay area, where he also set most of his fiction. Like his characters, he was a victim of his own weaknesses, dying as a result of the alcoholism that plagued his whole adult life.Brewer published prolifically under various pseudonyms and in a variety of niche ..." |
 | | Nude on Thin Ice / Memory of Passion(1st Edition) (Stark House Noir Classics) by Gil Brewer, David Rachels Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 2014 by Stark House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933586-53-3, ISBN: 1-933586-53-2 "NUDE ON THIN ICE It starts with a letter. Ken McCall is sunning himself in Key West with his current girlfriend, Betty, when he finds out that his old friend Carl has died. Carl’s last wish was that Ken look after his wife, Nanette, a request which Ken is only too eager to fill. Besides, there may be a fortune to be had if he can just play his cards right. First he ditches Betty. Then, after a hot drive across country, Ken finds tha ..." |
 | | The First West Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860 by Edward Watts, David Rachels Paperback, 960 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514133-7, ISBN: 0-19-514133-4 "In late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American writing, the "West," which comprised the territory between the Appalachian mountains and the Mississippi River, was a ubiquitous topic. Yet this writing is often overlooked in studies of the American West, which reach past this region to the Far Western frontier, and in analyses of whites and Native Americans, which typically focus on moments of contact. Tracing historic eve ..." |
 | | Andersonville Violets(1st Edition) A Story of Northern and Southern Life (Classics Civil War Fiction) by Herbert Winslow Collingwood, Robert Baird, David Rachels Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2000 by University Alabama Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-1061-5, ISBN: 0-8173-1061-4 "When John Rockwell, a Yankee captive at Andersonville, reaches across the prison's "dead line" to pluck a bunch of violets, Confederate guard Jack Foster is supposed to shoot him. Conflicted over thoughts of Lucy Moore, his girl back home, Foster lowers his gun. Spared, Rockwell lives to escape Andersonville, and Foster is discharged in disgrace.After the war, the paths of the two men are predictably divergent. Foster, as a symbol of th ..." |
 | | The Tease / Sin for Me (Paperback) by Gil Brewer Paperback, 266 Pages, Published 2020 by Stark House Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-951473-04-4, ISBN: 1-951473-04-3 |
 | | EconoClash Review #5 Quality Cheap Thrills by Die Booth, Aristo Couvaras, Adam S. Furman, R. Daniel Lester, Cameron Mount, David Rachels, Aeryn Rudel, E.F. Sweetman, Cynthia Ward, J. Manfred Weichsel, J. D. Graves Paperback, 142 Pages, Published 2020 by Down & Out Books ISBN-13: 978-1-64396-134-7, ISBN: 1-64396-134-9 "The Circus is back in town. The fifth issue of your favorite cheap thrills is over the top and proud of it. We've got sci-fi/horror/noir/crime/and humor just a page turn away. Behold stoners hunting UFOs, distracted workers causing nuclear meltdowns, detectives fighting crazy cat ladies, pharmacists surviving dystopian futures, Ukrainian mobsters, no luck assassins, demon conjurers, slime-ballers with dirty mags and a twinkle in their e ..." |
 | | Switchblade Issue Thirteen (Switchblade Volume One) by Robert Ragan, Danny Sophabmisay, Alec Cizak, Serena Jayne, Jay Rohr, David Harry Moss, Gene Breaznell, Brian Beatty, Elliot F. Sweeney, David Rachels Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2020 by Caledonia Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-73329-765-3, ISBN: 1-73329-765-0 "With Fiction, Flash and Poetry from Robert Ragan, David Harry Moss, Gene Breaznell, Serena Jayne, Jay Rohr, Brian Beatty, Elliot F. Sweeney, Stanton McCaffery, Danny Sophabmisay, Andrew Bourelle, George Garnet, David Rachels, and Alec Cizak ..." |
 | | Switchblade Issue Eleven (Volume One) by Alec Cizak, John Timm, George Garnet, Misha Burnett, J. D. Graves, Jim Wilsky, David Rachels, Serena Jayne, Robb T. White, Brian Beatty Paperback, 138 Pages, Published 2019 by Caledonia Press ISBN-13: 978-1-73329-764-6, ISBN: 1-73329-764-2 "Predators thrive on entropy. They’re often the ones closest to us. They know where we’re most vulnerable—where it hurts the most. They come in all types. They cruise the street anonymously, looking for victims; or they return to us like a lethal rash from an unresolved past. They might be ideological extremists. Or profit-driven sharply dressed parasites. They might even be megalomaniacs. But they all thrive on weakness—especially dysfu ..." |
 | | Spinetingler Magazine Fall 2017 by Sandra Ruttan, Jack Getze, Tracy Falenwolfe, Karin Montin, Brandon Mcnulty, Jennifer Soosar, S. B. Watson, Bern Sy Moss, Nick Kolakowski, David Rachels, Albert Tucher Paperback, 150 Pages, Published 2017 by Down & Out Books ISBN-13: 978-1-946502-66-7, ISBN: 1-946502-66-9 "“I’d been a grown-up since age twelve, when my father strangled my mother and took my family, my home, my cat, and any chance at ever having a normal life away from me.” The teenage daughter of a killer. “Kevin thinks he’s a millionaire. This jar of pennies weighs a ton, so Kevin thinks he must be rich, but there’s no connection between weight and value. Kevin’s father is proof of that.” What happens when Santa threatens to put Kevin on ..." |
 | | Verse Noir by David Rachels Paperback, 72 Pages, Published 2010 by Lulu.Com ISBN-13: 978-0-557-38286-6, ISBN: 0-557-38286-6 "David Rachels. verse no ir david rachels verse noir david rachels © 2010 David Rachels. All rights. Front Cover." |
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